The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.